Design / Methodology / Testing

• Size Matters (Leon Gersing)
• Idealistic vs. Practical (Christopher Bennage)
• Entities: Required Properties And Properties That Shouldn’t Be Modified (Davy Brion)
• Why “No Issues” Is Not An Acceptable Answer (Derick Bailey)
• Architecture By Baseball: The Presentation (Larry Clarkin)
• Simple Usability (Phil Haack)
• QTB: Lean Times Require Lean Thinking (Mark Needham)
• Persistence Patterns in MSDN Magazine (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Domain Driven Design & Test Driven Development\Design using Entity Framework, Part 2.A Unit Testing Entities With Moq 3 (Muhammad Mosa)
• My 100th blog post: Top 5 development practices you should care for (Patrick Smacchia)
• Comparing Moq to Rhino Mocks (Tim Van Wassenhove)
• Scrum Gathering Agile Architecture Talk (Mike Cottmeyer)

.NET / Visual Studio

• An Extensive Examination of LINQ: The Ins and Outs of Query Operators (Scott Mitchell)
• C# Optimization Revisited Part 2: Concurrency (Ade Miller)
• AgDLR 0.5 (Harry Pierson)
• Overview of Windows Azure (Tim Sneath)

Web Development

• What’s new in JScript for IE8 (Shreesh Dubey)
• Fiddler Plugin: Casaba Security’s Watcher tool (Marwan Tarek)
• Opening a WAP IIS Project when IIS Virtual doesn’t exist (Rick Strahl)
• Setting up your Dynamic Data Site with a Domain Service Layer (Steve Naughton)
• 10 Advanced PHP Tips Revisited (Vitaly Friedman & Sven Lennartz)

Silverlight / WPF

• Blend 3 Behaviors: Interactivity Without Code (Christian Schormann)
• Behaviors in Expression Blend 3 (Andy Beaulieu)
• Composite Application Guidance for WPF and Silverlight, now in VB Flavor (Bob Brumfeld)
• Silverlight Contrib 2009.1.0 Released! (G. Andrew Duthie)
• New goodies coming out with WPF 4 (Marlon Grech)
• Building an Optimized, Graphics-Intensive Silverlight Application (Tim Sneath)
• Discovering Silverlight 3 – The Star Wars Scroller (Velvart Andras) – Link of the Day
• A MUST READ: Microsoft .NET RIA Services Overview (Joel Reyes)
• Versioning note , writing SL 3.0 applications with Astoria v1.5 Sl 2.0 SDK Library (Phani Raj)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• ARCast.TV – Krzysztof Cwalina on Creating Reusable Frameworks (David Solivan)
• ScottGu’s Mix09 Silverlight for Business Applications Demo (Brad Abrams)
• Erik Meijer and Matthew Podwysocki – Perspectives on Functional Programming (Charles Torre)
• Talking Functional Programming with Erik Meijer (Matthew Podwysocki)
• ASP.NET MVC Sessions At Mix (Phil Haack)
• WPF Improvements in Visual Studio 2010 for Building Business Apps (Beth Massi)
• SharePoint for Developers Part 2: Working with Features (Kirk Allen Evans)
• 2009 MVP Global Summit Week – MVP Interviews – Part 2 (Jas Dhaliwal)
• RESTful Web Services with WCF Screencast (Michael Kennedy)
• Review: Coding in Objective-C 2.0 screencasts (Victor Agreda, Jr.)

Events / Community

• NINE Questions with Donn Felker (Chris G. Williams)
• LOLGeeks (Frank La Vigne)
• Mix 09 Trip Report (Jesse Liberty)
• 1st Annual Silverlight MIXer (John Papa)
• Recognizing Women in Technology for Ada Lovelace Day (Maggie Longshore)
• Dream Build Play 2009 and XNA Game Studio 3.1 Announced at GDC! (Kathleen Sanders)
• Nothin’ but .NET – Reaching out (Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo)
• Happy Ada Lovelace Day!! – Video Blog (Sara J. Chipps)
• Microsoft Public Sector Technology Conference – Albany, NY April 15, 2009 (Nandita)

Database

• Implementing a document database: simple queries (Oren Eini)

SharePoint

• Application Lifecycle Management for SharePoint (Clemens Reijnen)

Miscellaneous

• Notepad++ version 5.3 software update (Ben)
• Plan Your Web Working Career Path (Darrell Etherington)
• Is Software Engineering The Most Important Profession in the World? (Steve Clayton)
• Windows Home Server PP2 recognizes Windows 7 (Taimur Asad)
• Extending Your Brand to the Desktop with Windows 7 (Tim Sneath)
• Geeky T-Shirt ideas (Roy Osherove)
• Syntax Highlighting for PHP and CSS files (Sara Ford)
• Blogalogue: What makes a developer “senior”? (Trevor Green)
• Overcoming Fear of Clouding (Bill Zack)
• Making Web Applications Look Like Desktop Applications Using Chrome (Rhonda Tipton)
• Balsamiq Weekly Release: “Snap on Center” and other little things (Peldi Guilizzoni)
• Gephardt jumps on the PHR bandwagon (Neil Versel)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for March 24, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• The Morning Brew #314 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for March 24, 2009 — #549 and Silverlight Cream for March 24, 2009 – 2 — #550 (Dave Campbell)
• Everyman Links for March 24, 2009 (Dave Burke)
• Tech Twitterings #21 (Elijah Manor)
• Interesting Finds: March 24, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• CloudNews for March 24th, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)

Book of the Day

.NET / Visual Studio

• Ruby’s send in C# (Andre Loker)
• C# Optimization Revisited Part 1: Algorithms and Bill Clinton (Ade Miller)
• Win Your Copy – Professional ADO.NET 3.5 with LINQ and the Entity Framework (Me)
• Representation and Identity (Eric Lippert)
• Writing an IronPython Debugger: Showing Source Code and IronPython ConsoleColorMgr (Harry Pierson)
• Introducing Docu – Simple doc gen for .Net (James Gregory)
• WCF / Windsor Integration: Adding Behaviours (Mike Hadlow)
• NHibernate POID Generators revealed (Tuna Toksoz)
• As a FP Ambassador – F# for Testing and Analysis at Code Camp 11 (Rick Minerich)

Silverlight / WPF

• .NET RIA Services MIX ’09 Talk – Slides + Code (Nikhil Kothari)
• Blend 3 – An Overview (Christian Schormann) – Link of the Day
• What is .NET RIA Services? (Brad Abrams)
• Available to all: “First Look: Microsoft Silverlight 3” (Devon Musgrave)
• Update on Video Source Code and Silverlight Toolkit Release (Jesse Liberty)
• Silverlight 3 Features Announced – One Word…”Wow” (Dan Wahlin)
• Virtual Earth Silverlight Control CTP Teaser and Some Initial Thoughts (Chris Pietschmann)
• Creating applications with .NET RIA Service Part 1 – Introduction and Part 2 – Creating the project and Part 3 – Adding DomainService class (Martin Mihaylov)
• Silverlight Toolkit – Release: March 2009 (CodePlex)
• Expression Blend 3 is… (Rudi Grobler)
• Build a Simple Twitter client using Silverlight 2 (Shoban Kumar)
• Creating Silverlight 3 applications for PHP (Bradley Bartz)
• Silverlight Tip of the Day #99 – ComponentArt Controls (Mike Snow)
• Silverlight Design Time Extensibility (Justin Angel)
• Silverlight 3 Out-of-Browser Support (Chris Koenig)

Web Development

• Mindscape MVC – Extensions for ASP.NET MVC and LightSpeed (Jeremy Boyd)
• Patterns and Origins: SueetieContext and Patterns and Origins: SueetieCache Class and Patterns and Origins: The Sueetie Data Provider Model (Dave Burke)
• ASP.NET Dynamic Data 4.0 Preview 3 (CodePlex)
• Getting Started With Ruby On Rails (Jan Varwig)
• The Challenges of Script Debugging Using VS2008 (Steve Sheppard)
• Mix: Mobile Web Sites with ASP.NET MVC and the Mobile Browser Definition File (Scott Hanselman)

Design / Testing Methodology

• Obvious Testing or: How I Learned to Stop Using the new keyword (Chris Missal)
• My Current BDD / SpecUnit Live Templates (Derick Bailey)
• Choosing A Mocking Framework (Tim Barcz)
• Productivity, not Bailouts (Scott Bellware)
• There is return in user experience design (Simone Chiaretta)
• Test Review #1 – NerdDinner (Roy Osherove)
• My Code Would Suck Less If… (Leon Bambrick)
• What Is the Mission of Your Project? (Jurgen Appelo)

Community / Events

• Microsoft Courts Students at MIX (Darryl K. Taft)
• MIX09 Day 3 (Dave Campbell)
• What I’d Like To See At Microsoft’s Technical Events (Davy Brion)
• MIX09 Day 1 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• why we do love ScottGu.. (Jay Kimble)
• MIX09 Day 2 Keynote Pt 1: Dean Hachamovitch on Internet Explorer 8 and MIX09 Day 2 Keynote Pt 2: Deborah Adler on Changing Behavior by Design (Tim Sneath)
• Mix 09 – First Half Rollup and Session Videos (Scott Hanselman)
• Nominate a New Stack Overflow Moderator (Jeff Atwood)
• The Silverlight Tour Now Includes Silverlight 3! (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Game Developers Conference 2009! (Kathleen Sanders)
• Windows Azure Training Courses (Aaron Skonnard)

Podcasts / Screencasts

• Stack Overflow Podcast Bingo and Podcast #46 (Jeff Atwood)
• Silverlight 3 – What does it mean? (Monica Mork & Erik Mork)
• Dimecasts.NET Episode #94: Creating SOLID Code: Interface Segregation Principle (Stephen Bohlen)

Database

• SQL Server Data Service Announcement (Jason De Lorme)
• Indexing for Joins in SQL Server (Jose Barreto)

SharePoint

• Removing Role Definitions from a Role Assignment (Adam Buenz)
• p&p Sharepoint guidance v2 (Erwin Van Der Valk)
• MOSSMAN Says: New SharePoint Themes Available (John Holliday)
• Visual Studio 2008 extensions for SharePoint (VSeWSS) 1.3 addresses all common SharePoint Developer requests (Paul Andrew)
• IE 8.0 Quick Observation for SharePoint (Reza Alirezaei)

Miscellaneous

• Virtual Sever 2005 R2 SP1 Update and IE8 RTW (Brian Randell)
• IE8 focuses on usability (Ed Bott)
• The ALM Man… (Clemens Reijnen)
• Pimp your command-line for git (Ivan Porto Carrero)
• Five Dollar Programming Words (Jeff Atwood)
• Sony Reader Getting Half a Million Free Books from Google (Mark Wilson)
• Performance test: IE8 easily doubles IE7 speed (Scott M. Fulton, III)
• Eight Reasons to Fall in Love with Internet Explorer 8 (Tim Sneath)
• We’re sorry, but you won’t be able to download Internet Explorer 8 for Windows 7 Beta at this time (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Facebook IM for Windows Mobile (Sarah Perez)
• Microsoft Confirms Widgets Coming to Windows Mobile 6.5 (Brad Linder)
• Open Source and Cloud Computing Series – Introduction (Krishnan Subramanian)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #311 (Chris Alcock)
• Interesting Finds: March 19, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Links (3/19/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
• CloudNews for March 19th, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)

Book of the Day

Silverlight / WPF

• Expression Blend 3 Preview (MS Downloads)
• SketchFlow – Sketching and Prototyping in Expression Blend (Christian Schormann)
• Silverlight 3: Blog Post Summary (Andy Beaulieu)
• Blend 3 MIX Preview and TFS 2008 Integration (Brian Randell)
• .NET RIA Services is now public (Dinesh Kulkarni)
• What’s New in Silverlight 3? (Emil Stoychev)
• Perspective 3D in Silverlight 3 and Silverlight 3 as a Desktop Application (Out-of-Browser Applications) (Nikolay Raychev)
• Silverlight 3: More Posts? (Mike Taulty)
• Compiling the Silverlight 3 Video’s Code (Jesse Liberty)
• Announcing Silverlight 3! SL3 Post Index (Pete Brown)
• A guide to Silverlight 3 new features and Silverlight 3 Out-of-browser Update Model (Tim Heuer)
• Silverlight 3 and Silverlight Spy (Koen Zwikstra)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio March 2009 CTP (MS Downloads)
• A great set of performance tests for datareader,linq to sql, ef (Julie Lerman)
• Functional .NET – Lose the Magic Strings (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Geo Location Enables Developers To Choose Data Centers and Group Applications & Storage (Sriram Krishnan)
• Windows Azure Delivers New CTP Capabilities (Windows Azure Team)
• Using Extension Methods to Verify Assumptions (Craig Andera)

MIX09

• MIX09 Day 1 Keynote: A Roundup of Announcements and Releases (Me)
• Commerce Server 2009 Announced at MIX09 (ASP.NET News)
• New Experiences @MIX from the Microsoft Web Platform (Bill Staples)
• MIX09 Day 2 Scott Gu Keynote and MIX09 Day 2 and MIX09 Day 2 Bill Buxton Keynote (Dave Campbell)
• MIX 2009 Keynote Announcements: Day 1 (Denny Boynton)
• MIX09 Photos and MIX09 Photos Part 2 (Frank La Vigne)
• MIX09 Day 1 Keynote Pt 1: Bill Buxton on Experience Design and MIX09 Day 1 Keynote Pt 2: Scott Guthrie on Advancing User Experiences (Tim Sneath)
• A lap around MIX09 announcements (Simone Chiaretta)
• For MIX09 attendees: “First Look: Microsoft Silverlight 3” (Devon Musgrave)

Web Development

• ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Released! and Subtext 2.1.1 Available Via the Web Platform Installer (Phil Haack)
• Sample chapter from ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Quickly (Maarten Balliauw)
• WCF / Windsor Integration: Adding Behaviours (Mike Hadlow)
• Windows Azure Full Trust and FastCGI (PHP!) and PHP + ASP.NET in Windows Azure (Steve Marx)
• Hosting Roles Under .NET Full Trust (Mohit Srivastava)
• Using 3rd Party Programming Languages via FastCGI (Windows Azure Team)
• Introducing Web Friendly Feeds aka Friendly Feeds (Phani Raj)
• ASP.NET MVC Tip – Return specific views for specific errors. (Scott Koon)
• ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Documentation and Videos (Elijah Manor)
• ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Released (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Microsoft Web Platform, Web Application Gallery, Web Platform Installer (and DasBlog) (Scott Hanselman)
• Reach your people everywhere, in real time! (Kevin)
• ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Released (Nick Berardi)
• ASP.NET MVC Goes RTM Before MIX09 (Simone Chiaretta)
• Live Messenger Web Toolkit (Scott)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Ivory tower policies or mandates are counter productive (Derik Whittaker)
• If you’ve ever wondered what Query/Command Separation means (Jeremy D. Miller)
• "Architect" is a swear word. (Leon Bambrick)
• Patterns and Origins: SueetieConfiguration Class (Dave Burke)
• When Is One Container (IoC) Not Enough? (Dru Sellers)
• Your Software Project Has No Goal (Jurgen Appelo)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• ASP.NET MVC 1 with Phil Haack and First Look at Expression Blend 3 (Adam Kinney)
• Abrams and Kothari Talk MIX09! (Carl Franklin)
• Tips and Advice – Self Organizing Teams (Bob)
• Scott Guthrie: Inside Silverlight 3 (Charles)
• endpoint.tv Screencast – Consuming REST services with HttpClient (Cliff Simpkins)
• Hanselminutes on 9 – Johnny Lee on Computer Vision (Scott Hanselman)
• ASP.NET Podcast Show 137 – Microsoft Velocity Installation and Configuration with David Penton – audio (Wally McClure)
• Behind the scenes: How Scott Guthrie prepares for his MIX09 keynote (Tina) – Link of the Day

SharePoint

• Aging Calculated Fields in SharePoint (Bil Simser)
• Easy Installation of Visual Studio 2008 extensions for SharePoint (VSeWSS) 1.3 (Paul Andrew)

Community / Events

• Talk – JavaScript at Rockford .NET (Sergio Pereira)
• Microsoft Developer Dinner Presenting Design your ASP.NET Application with Standards using Expression Web – March 25, 2009 Reston, VA (Nandita)
• The State of ALT.NET (Nick Berardi)

Miscellaneous

• First Google Chrome Extensions (Alex Chitu)
• 14 Twitter directories to find new friends (Don Reisinger)
• WordPress News Report: iPhone, Widgets API, WordCamps in Hong Kong and China, International WordPress.tv (Lorelle VanFossen)
• The curious case of Kumo: more than just a “test name”? (Kip Kniskern)
• Re-reading books (Mark Needham)
• Windows Azure Outage (Michele Leroux Bustamante)
• Xbox 360 and EA Bring Beloved HASBRO FAMILY GAME NIGHT to Next Generation of Players (Sumeeth Evans)
• Internet Explorer 8 To Be Released At Noon EDT Today (March 19) (Sunshine)
• SQLAuthority News – 900th Article – 9 Best Practices – Important Milestones (Pinal Dave)
• Google Launches Chrome Experiments To Showcase JavaScript Applications (Robin Wauters)
• Improving the Education Experience with Internet Explorer 8 (Jatinder Mann)
• Mozilla Fennec (Firefox Mobile) Hits Beta (Brad Linder)
• WorldWide Telescope Web Client now available – bringing the universe closer to everyone (damaster)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for March 17, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: March 17, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #310 (Chris Alcock)
• Everyman Links for March 18, 2009 (Dave Burke)
• CloudNews for March 18h, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)

Book of the Day

• “Maximizing Value with Agile Release Planning” Recording (James Shore)
• Aspect Oriented Programming in C#.NET: Part I (Shivprasad Koirala)
• Beginning Mocking with Moq 3 – Part 2 (Justin Etheredge)
• Aluminum Wiring in Your Software (K. Scott Allen)
• How I Learned to Program Manage an Agile Team after 6 years of Waterfall (Sara Ford)
• Agile Methods – Delivering Software Faster (Kirk Knoernschild)
• Introduction to test-doubles (Laila Bougria)
• Why Don’t We Learn? (Davy Brion)
• Ken Sylvester on Top 5 Characteristics of Leaders (J.D. Meier)
• DDD and Repositories. Without NHibernate but with Lazy Loading (Peter Van Ooijen)

Web Development

• JavaScript for C# programmers: getting caught out with closures (Julian M. Bucknall)
• JavaScript: The Good Parts (Chris Brandsma)
• Introducing Sueetie Patterns and Origins (Dave Burke)
• ASP.NET MVC TIP – Keep your controllers and actions thin (Scott Koon)
• ASP.NET AJAX SlideShow Extender – Some Common Tips and Tricks (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Talking Points: WCF and RESTful Services (Part II) (Joel Reyes)
• External ITemplates and Hierarchical Databinding (David Fowler)
• Web Packaging: Installing Web Packages using Command Line (Vishal R. Joshi)

Silverlight / WPF

• WPF Rounded Corners – and holes! (Chris Cavanagh)
• MVVM Mediator Pattern (Sacha Barber)
• Deep Fried Bytes Episode #28: Networking Silverlight (Keith Elder)

.NET / Visual Studio

• ADO.NET Data Services V1.5 CTP1 (MS Downloads)
• Setting Automatic Property Values in a Struct’s Constructor (Black Wasp)
• Unicode in regular expressions (Jimmy Bogard)
• LINQ to SQL tips and tricks #1 (Damien Guard)
• linq and the dry principle (Erwin Van Der Valk)
• Programming Entity Framework (Jarod Ferguson)
• Mapping Stored Procedure Results to a Custom Entity in Entity Framework (Gil Fink)
• MSBuild Extension Pack – Release: 3.5.2.0 (CodePlex)

Database

• Designing a document database: Remote API & Public API and Designing a document database: What next? (Oren Eini)

Community / Events

• Social Networking not a replacement for In Person Networking (Brendon Schwartz)
• Join In with MIX09 Live Content Online (Bruce Kyle)
• XBOX LIVE Community Games Best Practices talk with Andy (The Zman) Dunn (Chris G. Williams)
• MIX09 Minus 1 (Dave Campbell)
• Events This Week – March 16th, 2009 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Local Boy Makes Good (Jeffrey Snover)

Miscellaneous

• Windows 7 build 7057 – Performance that blasts past XP, Vista and previous builds (Adrian Kingsley-Hughes)
• Why Service Virtualization Matters (Aaron Skonnard)
• Cloud Computing hits the mainstream press (Andy Singleton)
• Small Basic on Facebook (Vijaye R.)
• FizzBin – The Technical Support Secret Handshake (Scott Hanselman) – Link of the Day
• Getting Things Done with Gmail Tasks (Simon Mackie)
• Azure joins the “crash club”: down for 22 hours (Kip Kniskern)
• Open Source Maturity Model Explored (Tim Barcz)
• Things you know now (Joe Webb)
• 2nd Annual RossCode.com March Madness Pool Contest (Joel Ross)
• Weekly release: A Proper Certificate! (Marco Botton)
• Focus on fun and step into freedom in your career!! (Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo)
• How to Embed Your Windows Live Calendar on Your Website (Sarah Perez)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for March 16, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• The Morning Brew #308 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for March 16, 2009 — #543 (Dave Campbell)
• Weekly Link Post 85 (Rhonda Tipton)
• CloudNews for March 16th, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)

Book of the Day

Programming Entity Framework: Julia Lerman: Books ISBN: 059652028X ISBN-13: 9780596520281

Feeling MIX envy this week, as are some others out there.

Silverlight / WPF

• Free theme: INCY (Dax Pandhi)
• Silverlight DependencyProperty Relay and Silverlight Asynchronous Loader Helper (Chris Cavanagh)
• Beginning Silverlight 3 (Robert Lair)
• Pro Silverlight 3 in C# (Silverlight Show)
• Very colorful comments about Prism 2 (Glenn Block)

.NET / Visual Studio

• && vs & and | vs ||… What’s the difference? (Dave M. Bush)
• Book Review: NHibernate In Action (Davy Brion)
• Highlight on Visual Studio 2008 Quality Features (Gunther Lenz)
• How .NET Regular Expressions Really Work (Jeff Moser)
• Batching Queries using the ADO.NET Data Services Client library (Phani Raj)

Web Development

• New in Sueetie User Profiles: Avatars! (Dave Burke)
• Adding Dynamic Data Previews to a New or Exiting Dynamic Data Website (Stephen Naughton)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Disambiguating a test fixture (Jimmy Bogard)
• Oppression, Revolution and the Future of Scrum — #2 (Tobias Mayer)
• DevelopWithPassion@GitHub (Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo)
• Refinance Your Technical Debt Just Like Your Mortgage (Max Pool)
• Git – Distributed Version Control – New User Resources (Rob Reynolds)
• Foundations of Programming (foundationsof.com) – Link of the Day

Database

• Designing a document database: Looking at views (Oren Eini)
• Handling Report (RDL) Filters (William Vaughn)

Community / Events

• Mix 2009: So Much to Tell You about Blend… (Christian Schormann)
• Follow Silverlight updates on Twitter (Tim Heuer)
• Speaking at MIX (Stephen Walther)
• Suffering from Pre Mix Envy… again (Simone Chiaretta)
• Hanselminutes Podcast 153 – Scott’s Wife Mo interviews Scott Hanselman (Scott Hanselman)

Miscellaneous

• How to: Install Office Communicator 2007 on Windows 7 (Blake Handler)
• Writing Re-usable Scripts with PowerShell (James Kovacs)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for March 15, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• The Morning Brew #307 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for March 15, 2009 — #541 and Silverlight Cream for March 15, 2009 – 2 — #542 (Dave Campbell)
• Links of the week #75 (David Vidmar)
• Weekly Links #44 (Grant Palin)
• Links (3/15/2009) (Steve Pietrek)

Book of the Day

.NET / Visual Studio

• Removing Warnings from CSharp Compile Cycle (Dave M. Bush)
• Install the Surface SDK on Windows 7 and/or x64 (Brian Peek)
• Getting Started with Oslo Using ‘M’ (Bruce Kyle)
• IronRuby MVC progress (Ivan Porto Carrero)
• Writing an IronPython Debugger: Dynamic Stack Trace (Harry Pierson)
• SUBMITTING YOUR XNA GAME TO XLCG (Pete)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• DDD: Sample Application First Steps (Casey Charlton)
• Security Hot Spots (J.D. Meier)
• C# Design Patterns – The Facade Pattern (Justin)
• Beginning Mocking With Moq 3 – Part 1 (Justin Etheredge)
• DDD: Repository pattern (Mark Needham)
• Need Help Spotting that Hard to Test Code? (Chris Missal)
• Framework Design Guidelines: LINQ Support (Brad Abrams)
• Extreme Programming workflow simulation (Corey Ladas)
• Your Data Retrieval Code Should Be Readable Too (Davy Brion)
• What Isolation\Mocking and unit testing framework are you using? (Roy Osherove)
• Real Life – Code Reuse (Tim Barcz)
• Refactoring: reduce variable scope (Gunnar Peipman)

Silverlight / WPF

• The Knowledge Chamber: Silverlight 3.0 for Great Business Apps (Brad Abrams) – Link of the Day
• Composite Application Guidance for WPF and Silverlight v2.0 (PRISM) (Jeff Barnes)
• Silverlight Chord Finder (John Papa)
• MVVM Screencasts (Lester Lobo)
• Silverlight Sneak Peek: Building line-of-business with Silverlight (Tim Heuer)
• .Net libraries in Silverlight (Louis Salin)
• And now for something completely crazy: Binding without WPF (Josh Twist)
• Silverlight Tip of the Day #98 – Silverlight 3 Game Programming Book (Mike Snow)

Web Development

• How-To add a custom validation method to the jQuery validator plug-in and Java script: access properties of a complex JSON object (Gabriel N. Schenker)
• JavaScript for C# Programmers: the with Statement Considered Harmful (Julian M. Bucknall)
• How does Web Deployment with VS10 and MSDeploy Work? (Vishal R. Joshi)

Community / Events

• .NET Fireside Chats – Dan Fernandez and Brian Peek (Me) – Get a promo code for 30% off the Coding4Fun print or ebook, plus a free chapter to download and a chance to win a copy of the book!
• NINE Questions with Lou Vega and NINE Questions with Suzanna Moran (Chris G. Williams)
• Web Application Testing with Selenium and RSpec Workshop for Developers, Testers, and Teams in Austin, Tuesday, April 28th (Scott Bellware)
• Getting Ready for MIX09 (Mike Swanson)

Database

• Designing a document database: Storage and Designing a document database: Scale and Designing a document database: Concurrency (Oren Eini)
• SQL Server – Index Maintenance (Michael Ceranski)
• Enforcing parent child relationship with Path Hierarchy model (Simon Sabin)
• Enhancing Visualisation of Common Elements Across Groups Using Color in Reporting Services 2005, Part 1 (Thomas Williams)

Miscellaneous

• Verizon Customers – Just Say No! (Lidija Davis)
• Microsoft Big Brains: Mark Russinovich (Mary Jo Foley)
• PortableApps.com suite 1.5 released (Brad Linder)
• Skimming the ‘Cream (Dave Campbell)
• Microsoft would still “like to sit down” with Yahoo! on search deal (Kip Kniskern)
• Help Make Picnik Even More Awesome! (Lisa)
• A sneak peek at the Windows 7 Release Candidate (Ed Bott)
• Change in Toolbar Management (Frank Olivier)
• This title has not yet been released. (Clemens Reijnen)
• Live Mesh Introduces Online Media Viewer and Twitter Rename Plugin for Windows Live Writer (Sarah Perez)
• Did Joel Spolksy nearly drive my coworker insane? (Paul Vick)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: March 9, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• LINKBLOG for March 9, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• The Morning Brew #303 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for March 09, 2009 — #535 (Dave Campbell)
• CloudNews for March 9th, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)

Book of the Day

Design / Methodology / Testing

• On Git’s lack of respect for immutability and the Best Practices for a DVCS (Eric Sink)
• Testing ASP.NET MVC with QUnit – Part 1 (Brady Gaster)
• Framework Design Guidelines: Factored Types (Brad Abrams)
• Decade of Agile, Dawn of Lean (Scott Bellware) – Link of the Day
• Test types and Continous Integration (Laila Bougria)
• Ninject.FilterInjector v1.5: now injecting inside all kind of filters (Simone Chiaretta)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Preview of Code Contract Tools Now Available (Melitta Andersen)
• SharePoint Developers Get Big Boost in Visual Studio 2010 (Bruce Kyle)
• Talking Points: ADO.NET Entity Framework (Joel Reyes)
• Closures in C#: Variable Scoping and Value Types vs Reference Types (Derick Bailey)
• Book review: LINQ in Action (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• Thoughts on the Code Contracts Preview for .NET 4.0 (K. Scott Allen)
• Declaration of Awesomeness for the Mono Compiler (Scott Koon)
• Deep Fried Bytes Episode #27: Present and Future of the C# Language and Demystifying WCF on DNRTV (Keith Elder)
• Tips & Tricks for the Visual C# Integrated Development Environment (Lindsay Rutter)
• Use IDispatchMessageFormatter and IClientMessageFormatter to Customize Messages in WCF (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Windows 7 Taskbar: Custom Destinations (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Nintender – Open Source Nintendo Emulator in C# – Release: v.001 (CodePlex)

Web Development

• JavaScript for C# programmers: prototypes, the basics (Julian M. Bucknall)
• IE6 Warning – Stop Living In The Past – Get off of IE6 (Scott Hanselman)
• Creating and Consuming Syndication Feeds in ASP.NET 3.5 (Scott Mitchell)
• JavaScript Function Call Profiling (John Resig)
• Joining "IE6: Do NOT want!" campaign (Simone Chiaretta)
• SharePoint Online and jQuery (Stephen Cummins)
• JavaScript, time to grok closures (Sergio Pereira)

Silverlight / WPF

• How to Create a Drag & Drop / Move, Zoom In & Out Content Control (Amit Raz)
• New Preloader for Silverlight (Corey Schuman)
• Excellent Tool For Silverlight Developers (Davy Brion)
• Drawing with Ink in ASP.NET using Silverlight (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Announcing Family.Show v3 – Our WPF Reference Application (Tim Sneath)

Community / Events

• The official unofficial MIX09 Tweetup (Adam Kinney)
• Events This Week – February 23rd, 2009 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• MIX09 ticket winners (Tim Heuer)
• Heading to MIX 09 and Presenting Too (John Papa)
• The Importance of Code Camp in a recession (Stephen Forte)

Database

• Advanaced TSQL and performance tuning (Simon Sabin)
• SQL Server 2008 – CTE’s (Michael Ceranski)

Miscellaneous

• Windows 3.1 installed on Nokia N95 (Tim Conneally)
• Firefox Mobile (aka Fennec) Will Sync Tabs with Firefox on Your Desktop [Fennec] (Adam Pash)
• Social Desktop extends REST to your desktop (Jamie Thomson)
• Twitter PowerShell Script (Sarah Perez)
• Commodore 128 (Pete Brown)
• Web Work 101: Telecommuting – Out of Sight Doesn’t Have to Mean Out of Mind (Judi Sohn)
• (Officially) Announcing the Resident Evil Limited Edition Console (Larry Hyrb)
• Now, Discover Your Strengths (Steve Rowe)
• HowTo: Hello "Cloud-Computing" (Robert Muehsig)
• Why Do Enterprise Applications Suck? (Michael Nygard)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for February 23, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• The Morning Brew #293 (Chris Alcock)
• Interesting Finds: February 23, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Link Listing – February 23, 2009 (Christopher Steen)
• Silverlight Cream for February 23, 2009 — #526 (Dave Campbell)
• ASP.NET Dynamic Data Resources (Rachel Appel)
• CloudNews for February 23rd, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)

Book of the Day

Web Development

• Creating RSS Feeds Using ASP.NET 3.5 (Kevin Miller)
• Learning jQuery (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Spiff Up Your ASP.NET MVC Forms with jQuery (Justin Etheredge)
• Ask SM [CSS/JS]: Divs of Equal Height, Dealing with IE 6 (Chris Coyier)
• Default Control Focus with ASP.NET Master Pages and LINQ (Malcolm Sheridan)
• Oxite Updated (Sarah Perez)
• The CSS Corner: Using Filters In IE8 (Sylvain Galineau)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Does LINQ StinQ? Not with PLINQO! (Kevin Lawry)
• In-depth: How .NET managed services interact with the ServiceControlManager (SCM) (Kim Hamilton)
• DBProj.com (Gert Drapers)
• Use IOperationBehavior to Customize Operation Behavior in WCF (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Axiom 0.7.5.0 Beta 1 (Michael Cummings)
• Making c# lambda expressions more readable (Sean Biefeld)
• If you are still wondering how fast is ADO.NET vs ADODB (Simone Chiaretta)
• Using Enums in List Controls (Rick Strahl)
• Windows Azure Training Kit (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Custom Expressions and the DLR – Part 1 (Chris Cavanagh)
• StyleCop for ReSharper – Release: RC Refresh (0.0.14293.004) (CodePlex)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• DDD: The Repository Pattern (Casey Charlton)
• BDD Question: Low Level Behavior And Wrapper Methods? (Derick Bailey)
• The valley of continuous learning (Louis Salin)
• Great UI and the Presentation Layer – Clarity and Shape (Mark Miller)
• A Little Chat About Code Sensible Code Generation (Sacha Barber)
• Challenge: Do You Truly Understand This Code? (Davy Brion) – Link of the Day

Silverlight / WPF

• Testing Bindings In WPF (Christopher Bennage)
• Silverlight 2 gets minor update (Tim Heuer)
• Silverlight Tip of the Day #95 – Working with Strokes in Shapes (Mike Snow)
• Carousel Video Posted – Parts 1 and 2 (Jesse Liberty)
• Setting up a basic n-tier CSLA .NET for Silverlight project (Rockford Lhotka)

SharePoint

• Are SharePoint Developers Better Architects than Architects? (Adam Buenz)
• Please help – Visual Studio SharePoint development environment is very slow (Gunnar Peipman)
• Starting with JQuery and SharePoint – that did not work (Ton Stegeman)

Community / Events

• I’ll be at TechEd North America 2009 – Will you? (Andrew Connell)
• Network Instruments to Host Event in Philly (David Solivan)
• CodeStock 2009 “Call for Speakers” is Open (Michael C. Neel)
• Silverlight 2 Firestarter Event this Weekend – Malvern, PA (Pete Brown)
• User Group Meeting: Microsoft’s Cloud Services and Combining WCF and Business Activity Monitoring (Zhiming Xue)
• Tech Ed Connect (Jesse Liberty)
• Fun with Twitter for Mix09 (Scott Hanselman)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft’s ‘Social Desktop’ prototype bridges PC and Web (Todd Bishop)
• Free app downloads any Google Book Search item as PDF and Theme GMail your way with a custom color scheme (Lee Mathews)
• The Bad Apple: Group Poison (Jeff Atwood)
• Top 10 Disney LEGO Sets We’d Like to See (Matt Blum)
• 25 random things about Microsoft (Meghan)
• Autoruns for Windows Updated for Windows 7 (Sarah Perez)
• Auto Twitterise Your Blog Posts (Steve Clayton)
• Much Ado About Monads – List Edition (Matthew Podwysocki)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #291 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for February 19, 2009 — #522 (Dave Campbell)
• Links 2009-02-19 (Gunnar Peipman)
• Interesting Finds: February 19, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Links (2/19/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
• CloudNews for February 19th, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)

Book of the Day

.NET / Visual Studio

• Improve your NHibernating with NHProf (Hiberlog)
• Top 10 Favorite Performance Counters in Load Testing Using VSTS 2008 (Mohammad Ashraful Alam)
• DateTime.MaxValue (Fredrik Eriksson)
• Contextual Sessions with NHibernate – Part 2 (Javier G. Lozano)
• CodeRush/Refactor Pro refactors Javascript too (Jay Kimble)
• C#: Extensions methods != Open classes (Mark Needham)
• Mapping Objects with AutoMapper (K. Scott Allen)

Silverlight / WPF

• Building a WPF Application: Part 4 (Christopher Bennage)
• Prism 2.0 is Live (Blaine Wastell)
• Silverlight LinkLabel Control – Release: v1.1 (CodePlex)
• just released: composite application guidance for wpf and silverlight – February 2008 (Erwin van der Valk)
• MVP TV – Changing Silverlight 2’s Control Appearance and Behaviour. (Jas Dhaliwal)
• New Release: Composite Application Guidance for WPF and Silverlight v2.0 (PRISM) (J.D. Meier)
• WPF Kid Stuff: Extracting a Control Template (Shafqat Ahmed)
• Prism v2 – Guidance and Patterns for WPF and Silverlight (Tim Heuer)
• Silverlight 2 GDR1 Now Available… (Tim Sneath)
• Dependency Properties and Silverlight 2 (Corey Miller)
• Deep Zoom Composer – February 2009 Preview Released (Sunshine)
• Tracking Down Memory Leaks in WPF and Silverlight (Vladimir Milev)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• DDD: What Kind of Applications Is It Suited To? (Casey Charlton)
• D3: Modeling Part 1 – Real-World Relationships (Danny Simmons)
• "Inappropriate Intimacy" points to the bleeding out of your domain logic (Ian Cooper) – Link of the Day
• Types of testing (Laila Bougria)
• MSTest Digest #1 (Steve Andrews)
• Presenter Logic || Domain Service Logic || Repository Logic? (Sean Biefeld)

Web Development

• Fixing this blog for Internet Explorer 8 (Julian M. Bucknall)
• ASP.NET MVC Tip #47 – Using ResolveUrl in an HTML Helper (Stephen Walther)
• Oxite: what’s new and how to stay up to date with it (Simone Chiaretta)

SharePoint

• SharePoint and TDD – The other view (Andrew Woodward)
• Debugging SharePoint solutions using Visual Studio (DigiMortal)
• SPTDD: SharePoint and Test Driven Development, Part One (Eric Shupps)

Community / Events

• Mix09: Developing RESTful Services & Clients w/ M (Chris Sells)
• Hanselminutes Podcast 150 – Uncle Bob Martin, this time with feeling (Scott Hanselman)
• Team System on Twitter (Steve Andrews)

SQL Server

• How To Name Default Constraints And How To Drop Default Constraint Without A Name In SQL Server (Denis Gobo)

Miscellaneous

• How to Keep Innovating (Bill Buxton)
• Windows 7 Beta Brings New Functionality to Games Explorer (Brandon LeBlanc)
• The secret driven-development/design acronyms (Damien Guard)
• Engineering the Windows 7 Boot Animation (Karen Wong)
• Are You An Expert? (Jeff Atwood)
• Google Releases Google Mobile for Windows Mobile and The Best Whitepaper I’ve Read In Years: Cloud Computing from UC Berkeley (Steve Clayton)
• The Hulu Plugins Just Keep Coming! (Sarah Perez)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for February 18, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• The Morning Brew #290 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for February 18, 2009 — #521 (Dave Campbell)
• CloudNews for February 18th, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)
• New and Notable 292 (Sam Gentile)
• Daily Find #118 (Tim Boland)
• Creators Club Communiqué 18 (Kathleen Sanders)

Book of the Day

Design / Methodology / Testing

• abetterteam.org (James Shore)
• Mocking objects that change arguments (Alex Thissen)
• Framework Design Guidelines: Serialization Technology (Brad Abrams)
• DDD: Aggregates and Aggregate Roots (Casey Charlton)
• Code Cast 22 – Distributed Agile (David Starr)
• The Curious Case of Software Quality (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Great User Interfaces, Clarity, and Emphasis (Mark Miller)
• Collective Code Ownership: Some Thoughts (Mark Needham)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Lambda Expressions, Extension Methods and NHibernate (Hiberlog)
• The M Programming Language – Part 1 – Structural Typing (Bart de Smet)
• Working with the ResourceManager (Kim Hamilton)
• Spaces in identifier names in C# (Jimmy Bogard)
• stackalloc in CSharp (Dave M. Bush)
• Logging Entity Framework Queries to Look for Perf Improvement Opportunities (Julie Lerman)
• What’s common between C# 4.0 optional parameters, object initializers, the new WPF code editor and the navigation bar comboboxes? (Kirill Osenkov)
• NAnt on Windows Server 2008 64-bit with .NET 3.5 (Kyle Baley)
• Windows 7 Taskbar: Overlay Icons and Progress Bars (Sasha Goldshtein)

Silverlight / WPF

• Composite Application Guidance for WPF and Silverlight – February 2009 (MS Downloads)
• Garbled Text in WPF (Christopher Bennage)
• Dependency Properties and Silverlight 2 (Corey Miller)
• Silverlight – Databinding (Dave M. Bush)
• Fun with Silverlight Toolkit Charts (Rudi Grobler)
• XBAPs Part 2: Consuming WCF services from an XBAP (Marlon Grech)
• Finally I can reveal stuff I working for last half year! (Tamir Khason)
• CBS to stream March Madness via Silverlight (Keith)

Web Development

• JavaScript for C# programmers: void (Julian M. Bucknall)
• Updating the Wiki sample to MVC RC1 (Chris Tavares)
• Review: The best JavaScript book I’ve read (Dave Ward)
• Checking If the Browser Is Still Connected In ASP.NET (Joel Ross)
• Follow The Menu: A jQuery Experiment In Position Animation (Karsten Januszewski)
• Interest in ASP.NET MVC is raising (Simone Chiaretta)
• Live Framework SDK – DataEntries, SyncEntries, NewsItems (Mike Taulty)
• MVC Storefront: Why No Source!1!1! (Rob Conery)
• Talking Points: ASP.NET Data Services (Joel Reyes)
• The jQuery Plugin Repository – How Can It Be Improved? (Ralph Whitbeck) – Link of the Day

Community / Events

• Northeast Roadshow March ’09 (Bob Familiar)
• New Agile Boot Camp Dates (March 11-13) (Jeffrey Palermo)
• New weekly show: "Ping" launches on Channel 9 (Laura)
• “M” at Mix09… (Paul Vick)
• Deep Fried Bytes Episode #26: Discovering Azure SQL Services (Keith Elder)

SharePoint

• Getting Started with SharePoint 2007 Development – Q & A (Dan Wahlin)

Miscellaneous

• Windows 7 Native VHD Support (Bart de Smet)
• Microsoft announces Windows Mobile 6.5 (Chris Ziegler)
• Windows 7 DRM begins to surface (Cory Doctorow)
• Just The Facts: Recap of Compatibility View [IE8] (Scott Dickens)
• Twisten.fm Turns Twitter into a Music Station (Jason Fitzpatrick)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for February 16, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Cool Site I should Have Already Known About (Angela Binkowski)
• The Morning Brew #288 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for February 16, 2009 — #519 (Dave Campbell)
• Interesting Finds: February 16, 2009 and Interesting Finds: February 17, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• New and Notable 291 (Sam Gentile)
• CloudNews for February 16th, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)

Book of the Day